Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— New Living Translation Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding. English Standard Version making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; Berean Standard Bible if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding, King James Bible So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; New King James Version So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; New American Standard Bible Make your ear attentive to wisdom; Incline your heart to understanding. NASB 1995 Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; NASB 1977 Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; Legacy Standard Bible To make your ear pay attention to wisdom, Incline your heart to discernment; Amplified Bible So that your ear is attentive to [skillful and godly] wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding [seeking it conscientiously and striving for it eagerly]; Christian Standard Bible listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding; Holman Christian Standard Bible listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding; American Standard Version So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding; Aramaic Bible in Plain English And you will incline your ear to wisdom and turn your heart to understanding Brenton Septuagint Translation thine ear shall hearken to wisdom; thou shalt also apply thine heart to understanding, and shalt apply it to the instruction of thy son. Contemporary English Version Keep in tune with wisdom and think what it means to have common sense. Douay-Rheims Bible That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence: English Revised Version So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; GOD'S WORD® Translation if you pay close attention to wisdom, and let your mind reach for understanding, Good News Translation Listen to what is wise and try to understand it. International Standard Version making your ear attentive to wisdom, and turning your heart to understanding— JPS Tanakh 1917 So that thou make thine ear attend unto wisdom, And thy heart incline to discernment; Literal Standard Version To cause your ear to attend to wisdom, | You incline your heart to understanding, Majority Standard Bible if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding, New American Bible Turning your ear to wisdom, inclining your heart to understanding; NET Bible by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding, New Revised Standard Version making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; New Heart English Bible So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; Webster's Bible Translation So that thou incline thy ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding; World English Bible so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; Young's Literal Translation To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Benefits of Wisdom1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you, 2if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding, 3if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,… Cross References Proverbs 2:3 if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, Proverbs 4:1 Listen, my sons, to a father's instruction; pay attention and gain understanding. Proverbs 4:20 My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Proverbs 22:17 Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise--apply your mind to my knowledge-- Treasury of Scripture So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; thou Proverbs 18:1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. Psalm 119:111,112 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart… Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. apply Psalm 22:17-21 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me… Psalm 25:12 What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Jump to Previous Apply Applying Attend Attention Attentive Cause Discernment Ear Gives Heart Incline Making Turn Turned Turning Understanding WisdomJump to Next Apply Applying Attend Attention Attentive Cause Discernment Ear Gives Heart Incline Making Turn Turned Turning Understanding WisdomProverbs 2 1. wisdom promises godliness to her children10. and safety from evil company 20. and direction in good ways Verse 2. - This verse is dependent on the preceding. So that thou incline. The literal translation is "to incline;" but the inclination of the ear and the application of the heart follow as a consequence upon the precepting ideas (cf. the Vulgate, ut audiat sapientiam auris tua). The root idea of the original (קָשַׁב kashav) is "to sharpen," viz. the ear as expressed, and so to give diligent attention to the precepts of Wisdom. In Proverbs 1:24 it is rendered "to regard." To apply thine heart is to turn the heart with the whole scope of its powers, in the spirit of humility and eagerness, to understanding. As the ear represents the outward vehicle of communication, so the heart (לִב, lev) represents the inward, the intellectual faculty, the mind, or it may mean the affections as suggested by the LXX. καρδία and Vulgate cor. Understanding (תְּבוּנָה, t'vunah) is here interchanged with "wisdom," which must determine its meaning to some extent. The LXX. interpreters take it as σύνεσις, the faculty of comprehension." Like בִינָה (vinah) in Proverbs 1:2, the word describes the faculty of distinguishing or separating: but it does not appear to be here used as representing this "as a faculty of the soul, but as a Divine power which communicates itself as the gift of God" (Delitzsch). A second and perhaps simpler sense may be given to the sentence. It may mean the turning or applying of the heart in an affectionate and loving way, i.e. with full purpose, to the discrimination of what is right and what wrong. The ideas of wisdom and understanding seem to some extent to be brought forward as personifications. They are things outside of ourselves, to which we have to give attention. Religion appeals not only to the affections, but also to the intellect, as this satisfies all the yearnings of our nature. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew if you inclineלְהַקְשִׁ֣יב (lə·haq·šîḇ) Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct Strong's 7181: To prick up the ears, hearken your ear אָזְנֶ֑ךָ (’ā·zə·ne·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 241: Broadness, the ear to wisdom לַֽחָכְמָ֣ה (la·ḥā·ḵə·māh) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2451: Wisdom and direct תַּטֶּ֥ה (taṭ·ṭeh) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 5186: To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend your heart לִ֝בְּךָ֗ (lib·bə·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre to understanding, לַתְּבוּנָֽה׃ (lat·tə·ḇū·nāh) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8394: Intelligence, an argument, caprice Links Proverbs 2:2 NIVProverbs 2:2 NLT Proverbs 2:2 ESV Proverbs 2:2 NASB Proverbs 2:2 KJV Proverbs 2:2 BibleApps.com Proverbs 2:2 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 2:2 Chinese Bible Proverbs 2:2 French Bible Proverbs 2:2 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 2:2 So as to turn your ear (Prov. 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